Review: Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
User Review - Samuel - GoodreadsAiming at less of a travel journal than a series of miniatures reminiscent of Chaucer, only treated more prosaically and respectfully, Dalrymple allows each pilgrim to tell his or her own story. And ... Read full review
Review: Nine Lives
User Review - Sheila - GoodreadsAs a travelogue , or an anthropological read, either way its a good read. the open mindedness with which each story is approached is really awesome; it would have been so simple to have been ... Read full review
Review: Nine Lives
User Review - Smitha - GoodreadsI had heard of William Dalrymple, but had never managed to get hold of it. For some reason, my library's online search never yielded any results. One day, at the library, I managed to browse through ... Read full review
Review: Nine Lives
User Review - Kodali - GoodreadsWilliam Dalrymple writes about India better than any Indian author - Khushwanth Singh This line do not appear as cliche after reading "Nine Lives". It presents the rich spiritual heritage of sub ... Read full review
Review: Nine Lives
User Review - Anshul Gaurav - GoodreadsThe blind singer on the train to Vrindavan; that holy man on the route to Kedarnath; a prostitute of the Gods; the dancing dervishes of Sufism, Tantriks defying conventionalism; an old nun on a path ... Read full review
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User Review - Eric De la cova - GoodreadsThis book is both inspiring and tragic. The nine spiritual seekers whose lives are described put everything on the line, and bet it all. No hedging, no going back, do or die. But they are in vehicles ... Read full review
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User Review - Kathy - GoodreadsNon-fiction. Well written. It is not the sort of book that you pick up for a pleasant read. It is tough to read about the lives of poor people living in India. The author interviews nine different ... Read full review
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User Review - Ankit - GoodreadsDidn't find anything thought provoking or splendid, maybe because being in India we have heard such stories many times. It's a slumdog of books Read full review
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User Review - Neil - GoodreadsThis book is absolutely brilliant. Dalrymple takes a socio-cultural and anthological look at some very diverse and non-mainstream forms of religious practice and spiritual pursuit in India. What ... Read full review
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User Review - Tig - GoodreadsDazzling , mind-spinning accounts of religious lives, with a richness and texture that only India can deliver. The stories of these nine people are told in very simple, spare prose, using the direct ... Read full review
